July 3, 1966 Earthquake: Mus, Turkey

Date

July 3, 1966

Place

Mus, Turkey

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

38.500° N, 41.300° E

Country

Turkey

Deaths

14

Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.

• 1458, Erzincan,erzurum, Turkey32,000 deaths · 174 km
• 1444, Nemrut Mtns, Turkey30,000 deaths · 81 km
• 1482, Erzincan,erzurum, TurkeyM7.5 · 30,000 deaths · 174 km
• June 2, 1859, Erzurum, TurkeyM6.1 · 15,000 deaths · 156 km
• April 28, 1903, Malazgirt, TurkeyM6.3 · 3,560 deaths · 12,000 houses destroyed · 124 km
• August 19, 1966, Varto, TurkeyM6.8 · 2,394 deaths · $20 million · 85 km
• September 6, 1975, Lice, TurkeyM6.7 · 2,311 deaths · 50 km
• March 31, 1648, Van, Turkey2,000 deaths · 167 km
• May 22, 1971, Bingol, TurkeyM6.7 · 995 deaths · $5 million · 77 km
• May 31, 1946, Ustukran, TurkeyM5.9 · 840 deaths · 81 km
• March 13, 1992, Erzincan, TurkeyM6.9 · 653 deaths · $750 million · 199 km
• October 23, 2011, Ercis, Van, TurkeyM7.1 · 604 deaths · $1.5 billion · 5,739 houses destroyed · 194 km
• August 17, 1949, Karliova, TurkeyM6.8 · 320 deaths · 124 km
• July 29, 1945, Van,bolgesi, Turkey300 deaths · 174 km
• May 1, 2003, Bingol, TurkeyM6.4 · 177 deaths · 718 houses destroyed · 92 km

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Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. NCEI earthquake 4370.